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SuCasa is a new CSS web design community site launched by WebAssist. SuCasa allows designers to download everything from Dreamweaver templates to CSS menus. Users of WebAssist’s CSS Menu Writer, CSS Sculptor and SiteAssist Professional can look for new templates, menus and sites to integrate into their WebAssist extensions.

“SuCasa delivers a ‘one-stop shop’ for web designers to sell and exchange their diverse and professional web designs to each other and to businesses, as well as individuals, looking to enhance their Web presence,” said Michael Lekse, Vice President Sales, WebAssist. “We are thrilled to see the immense growth of this online template community, and look forward to seeing small business owners, developers, and web designers alike benefit from SuCasa.”

For those who are knowledgeable in CSS and HTML and can develop their own templates, or are familiar with the Menu Writer or Sculptor interface, SuCasa allows designers to publish their works for sale on the site. WebAssist takes a small 10% fee for hosting and maintenance of the site, but the rest goes straight into your PayPal account.

WebAssist just released SiteAssist Professional which is a complete remake of their SiteAssist Dreamweaver extension. Instead of opting for a higher version number, they decided to tag the product with the Professional designation to reflect the added features of the new version.

SiteAssist Professional is a Dreamweaver extension that creates complete websites, not just templates or layouts. By selecting from a wide variety of pre-set site themes, you can very quickly generate all your website pages including graphics and navigation.

Commercial website templates are kind of a mixed bag of function and usability. Some are good and some are just plain terrible. CSS Designs are a new line of CSS website templates from WebAssist that are CSS-based and built for cross-browser compatility and easy customization.

CSS Designs are standard HTML CSS templates that include 12 different color schemes and also include both the Fireworks and Photoshop source files so you can easily customize the template graphics. The coolest part about them is the ability to integrate the templates with CSS Sculptor for Dreamweaver and Expression Web. If you have CSS Sculptor, you can very easily tweak the templates to your liking using Sculptor’s easy-to-use interface. If you don’t have Sculptor, you can use the templates with any HTML authoring software, even Notepad if that’s your cup of tea.

I finally got around to posting our review of WebAssist’s Super Suite extensions for Dreamweaver. Super Suite is a collection of every WebAssist Professional Dreamweaver extension and we have used it extensively for over a year on many different website design projects. The Super Suite review is posted on our main JustDreamweaver.com site.

We are planning in-depth reviews of most of the extensions on our site, so check back often for the new Dreamweaver extension reviews.

Are you still manually building your HTML or XML sitemaps? Has your site outgrown those free online sitemap builders? There’s a new extension called Surveyor for Adobe Dreamweaver 8 and CS3 that builds your sitemaps automatically from within a simple configuration wizard.

Sitemaps and SEO are like peanut butter and jelly

If you’ve read anything on SEO and website optimization, you know that an XML sitemap combined with a HTML sitemap gives search engines the breadcrumbs they need to find the pages in your site. One of the coolest features of Surveyor is it’s ability to not only build an XML sitemap, but it will also submit it to Google, Yahoo, Live Search, Ask and Moreover.

If you’re a WebAssist extension user and you’ve been wanting to get your hands on a new Apple iPhone 3G, here’s your chance. As part of their 2008 Do More/Win More competition, WebAssist is giving away a pair of 16GB iPhone 3G’s for winners of the best overall site and best overall CSS Sculptor layout and CSS Menu Writer menu.

Not only are a couple of iPhones up for grabs, but also well over $2,000 in free WebAssist software as well. Entries for the contest can be submitted through August 31, 2008, and winners will be announced September 30.

Trellian is our new free Dreamweaver template and it comes with sweet CSS navigation courtesy of CSS Menu Writer. We wanted to showcase a few of our favorite Dreamweaver extensions, so we also generated the XHTML page structure in CSS Sculptor. The template is tableless and includes a multi-level CSS menu that can be easily customized in the code.

If you do your own website design, we highly recommend both CSS Sculptor and CSS Menu Writer. It’s truly amazing how quickly you can generate standards compliant site structure and navigation. What used to take the most time in developing a new site has been reduced to a matter of minutes so we can focus more on the eye candy and content.

WebAssist is having their Summer Sale through July 4, 2008, so now’s the time to buy some great Dreamweaver extensions. Included in the sale is WebAssist’s new CSS Menu Writer extension that makes CSS drop-down menus a snap, Eric Meyer’s CSS Sculptor for generating complete CSS website layouts and even their ultimate extension set, Super Suite , which includes every WebAssist Dreamweaver extension in one money-saving bundle.

Take advantage of this sale while it lasts, because pricing on WebAssist extensions doesn’t get any lower! No WebAssist coupon codes are needed to take advantage of this special discount pricing.

We’ve been hearing a lot about CSS Menu Writer over the last couple of months and it’s finally here. Just released by WebAssist, CSS Menu Writer takes the hassle out of creating CSS menu navigation in Dreamweaver.

Menu Writer is a Dreamweaver extension that creates horizontal or vertical website menus through a tabbed wizard interface, similar to CSS Sculptor. As with Sculptor, Eric Meyer had a hand in making sure Menu Writer menus are standards compliant and valid CSS and HTML. The extension installs just like any other in Dreamweaver, and is accessible through the WebAssist toolbar.

Yesterday WebAssist introduced their new SiteScribe extension for Dreamweaver. It’s a great tool for web designers who may need to present website screenshots in a PDF format.

Simply tell SiteScribe to crawl a local or live site, and the depth to which to crawl. SiteScribe will bring back screenshots of each page and you can then present up to 6 images per PDF page in any order you want. For presenting websites to clients, colleague discussion, internal web workflow, or simply for archiving a site, SiteScribe gets the job done. Check it out at WebAssist.